Last Minute Notice! “Can Art Affect Social Change?” Barry Blitt and Peter Kuper, among others, will discuss tonight at The Society of Illustrators. Details here ____________________________________________________________________ Check out Gil Roth’s wonderful interview with Glen Baxter on Mr. Roth’s Virtual Memories podcast here. (Mr. Baxter talks about coming to The New Yorker in the Robert Gottlieb era). While on
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Blitt Pencilled; The Tilley Watch…with Mankoff, Eckstein, Flake, Steed & Allenby
Barry Blitt is the next New Yorker artist sharing the tools of his trade on Jane Mattimoe’s wonderful blog, A Case For Pencils. Read it here. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ …“New Yorker Cartoons Past, Present and Future” a talk by Bob Mankoff, the New Yorker‘s Cartoon Editor will take place at The Museum of The City of New York
Read moreChast & Blitt Speak; Chast Draws
Roz Chast & Barry Blitt will be in conversation at the Long Island Museum on April 14th. [cost: $125.00] All the details here. Link to Ms. Chast’s website here. Link to Mr. Blitt’s website here. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ and here’s a fun post showing Ms. Chast drawing over a projected blow-up of one of her pieces. This in preparation for the
Read moreIan Frazier on Steinberg’s 100th; New Yorker’s Daily Cartoon: Sipress Redux; New Yorker Publisher on the magazine’s Festival
From newyorker.com, October 8, 2014, “Saul Steinberg At One Hundred” — this short piece by Ian Frazier. Mr. Frazier, a long-time contributor to The New Yorker, will moderate a panel discussion on Steinberg at the New Yorker Festival, at noon, October 12. Details here. ________________________________________________________________________________ Ben Schwartz has handed the New Yorker’s online Daily Cartoon baton to David Sipress,
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